Kathy McKeon spent 13 years as Jacqueline Kennedy’s personal assistant and occasional nanny. McKeon was hired as Kennedy’s assistant in 1964, when McKeon was just 20 years old and recently arrived from Ireland. Rose Kennedy, Jacqueline’s mother-in-law, referred to McKeon as “Jackie’s girl” because she was perpetually by her side, even playing an important part in raising Caroline and John Jr. McKeon also aided Jacqueline during her courtship by Aristotle Onassis, as well as in the aftermath of the assassination of Robert Kennedy. Her book, “Jackie’s Girl: My Life with the Kennedy Family” (Gallery), provides personal insight on one of the most famous people of the 20th century.
Thomas Oliphant
Thomas Oliphant was a Washington reporter and columnist for The Boston Globe. He has recently published “The Road to Camelot: Inside JFK’s Five-Year Campaign” (Simon & Schuster), about President Kennedy’s rise to the White House and how close he came to losing the election. In 1975 the Globe won a Pulitzer Prize for its reporting on Boston school desegregation, and Oliphant was one of three editors who managed the coverage. Oliphant is often seen on public affairs programs such as the PBS “NewsHour” and “Face the Nation.” Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin called “The Road to Camelot”: “A freshly told, endlessly riveting story that captures the reader every step along the way.”
Steven Levingston
The author of the book “Kennedy and King: The President, the Pastor and the Battle over Civil Rights" (Hachette) is Steven Levingston, who is the nonfiction editor of The Washington Post. His new book is about the contentious relationship between John Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr. during the civil rights era. Levingston has also worked for The Wall Street Journal, the International Herald Tribune and the Associated Press. He is also the author of “Little Demon in the City of Light: A True Story of Murder and Mesmerism in Belle Époque Paris” and “The Kennedy Baby: ...More...
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